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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Foundation vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit broad intelligence about the world, yet translating this intelligence into robot control remains challenging. We present Show-Harness, an Embodied Harness that enables VLMs to"play"robots through a compact semantic interface linking intent to action. Show-Harness exposes...

Yan-Zhe Chen, Ze-Chen Bai, Zhi-Jun Cao et al. · 23 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Semigroup-JEPA: Latent Dynamics Consistency for Zero-Shot Physics Generalization

SemiGroup-JEPA (SG-JEPA), which extends the LeWorldModel framework by supplying the parameter governing the physics to the temporal model via action-conditioning and jointly training an encoder and predictor through an autoregressive latent rollout, is introduced.

A. Liu, Hao-Ran Sun, L. Baker et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving

The PACE is presented, a framework for retrieval-augmented dialogue serving that formalizes Perceived Time-to-First-Response (PTFR) as a QoE objective and minimizes it under quality/cost constraints and is the first quantification of filler-answer conflict risk in deployed services.

Ling Huang, Yujuan Tan, Wei-Sheng Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Sample-Adaptive Strategy Routing for Vision Token Pruning in MLLMs

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image, incurring prohibitive inference costs. While existing vision token pruning methods mitigate this overhead, they implicitly assume that a single fixed pruning strategy can be applied uniformly across all inputs. Our analys...

Hai-Jin Liang, P. Zhou, Zheng-Lin Wan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

One Loop, Two Gains: Can Active Learning win the Lottery for Free?

The lottery ticket hypothesis posits the existence of winning tickets: sparse subnetworks that, when trained in isolation from their original initialization, match the accuracy of the full dense network. The predominant method for discovering such tickets, iterative magnitude pruning, alternates pruning with full retra...

Benedikt Tscheschner, Eduardo Veas, Marc Masana · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SA-Profile: Automated Sulcus Angle Profiling from Super-Resolution MRI

An automatic framework for continuous SA profiling from super-resolved MR volumes is proposed, extending conventional SA assessment to a continuous profile-based description of trochlear morphology without additional imaging, while remaining conceptually linked to current clinical assessment.

Michael Wehrli, Leo Widmer, Edwin Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A statistical approach to bias in zero-shot learning: the lens of handwriting recognition

A statistical approach to bias rectification that can be combined in a turn-key fashion with any classical GZSL feature learner as a blackbox, thereby suggesting a wide scope of applicability of this method for a wide variety of GZSL implementations in different domains.

C. Chew, Gim Siang Chia, S. Chanda et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Book Open access Dec 2025

Elastoformer: Enabling Dynamic Adaptivity via Elastic Model Transformation

This paper proposes Elastoformer: A framework that transforms conventional neural networks into Elastic NN capable of real-time elastic inference, and offers a single, modular solution that dynamically switches between multiple modes of operation at runtime, adapting efficiently to the changing computational budgets of...

Sudaksh Kalra, D. Sapra · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

What Makes Adversarial Examples Transfer Across Deepfake Detectors?

A controlled evaluation of adversarial transferability across 60 detectors spanning six backbones, two pretraining regimes, and five training-data configurations establishes source-model selection as central dimensions of credible transfer-based black-box robustness evaluation.

Rafael M. Mamede, Pedro C. Neto, A. F. Sequeira · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FlowCPO: A Unified Divergence View of Preference Alignment for Flow Models

This work introduces FlowCPO, an offline forward-KL objective that uses both preferred and dispreferred samples without online rollouts and shows under explicit regularity conditions that the forward-KL objective is bounded by a contrastive flow matching loss, yielding a tractable surrogate on fixed data.

Yan-Sen Han, Shengyi Liao, Peng Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Strangers to Themselves: What Language Models Say About Themselves Is Generic

Language models can fluently describe how they would behave: whether they would cave to pushback, misuse a tool, or lie under pressure. Is that description actually about the model speaking? We turn self-knowledge into a prediction test. Across nine behavioral evaluations, we measure how a model behaves under different...

Phil Blandfort, Urja Pawar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Albedo Estimation via Latent Bridge Matching

This work introduces a novel LBM-based architecture that enforces physical consistency through a pixel reconstruction loss, benefits from the inherent efficiency of LBM low-cost inference, and improves generalization across diverse datasets by incorporating a shading conditioning.

Carme Corbi, David Serrano-Lozano, Javier Vazquez-Corral et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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